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Jan 27, 2025 30 min

Script Kiddies vs. Spymasters: When Teens Hacked the CIA

from Curiosophy: A Future Forward Cast. Hosted by Future Center Ventures, Mark M. Whelan

Two teenage hacking groups rocked the intelligence community by breaching CIA Director John Brennan's accounts. This episode explores how digital natives with a political agenda exposed vulnerabilities at the highest levels of U.S. intelligence, leading to arrests and prison time. Against the backdrop of Snowden's revelations, we examine when activism crosses into criminality.

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